A common tavern that connects all fantasy worlds

Jacob first picked out 5 yuan to settle the employment bill for his daughter.

But from what he saw...the other party didn't seem to value the 5 yuan very much.

D, who took the stack of dollars, handed over the money to Xue Li, and asked, "How long can I drink in the tavern with this money?"

"That's not necessary...Now the tavern is not so short of money, and the supply of drinks is also getting faster with the increase in the number of guests. It's no problem to supply your own consumption."

Boss Xue replied.

Indeed... as long as he says he wants precious metals, Barbaria can find him a suitable asteroid right away; now that things like storm pulse rifles and gene reduction potions can be obtained, the tavern is suitable for all kinds of asteroids. The demand for world currencies is not that high anymore, especially the dollar, which is not very common in every world.

"So……"

D turned his gaze to Santa Nicole, and continued: "I promise her that she will live, and use the money as her management fee."

"manage?"

Santa Nicole suddenly heard some terrible words and looked at D in astonishment.

Only then did she realize that she had never lied to this man... He never let his guard down.

He never retracted the long knife into its sheath. Under his eyes, Kate stretched out her hand tremblingly and sent the "vampire" into the tavern.

Santa Nicole is neither a guest nor an employee of the tavern; as long as the guests from other worlds do not come to take her away, then she will have to spend the rest of her "eternal life" in the tavern...

As for whether she will deceive the guests and escape to other worlds, that is something that Boss Xue has to pay attention to.

Xue Li agreed to D's request, and sent this "snake demon" who had no time to resist into his territory, and finally couldn't restrain his curiosity, and asked the hunter standing next to him: "You seem to distrust me very much." she?"

"Her sin was not entirely compelled by the 'King of Serpents'...she herself was enjoying this immortality."

D opened his mouth to answer.

The rotten smell in the soul, as long as he smells it once, it is absolutely impossible to be ignored; the intoxicated and contented expression when he showed his original shape in the bar is absolutely impossible to escape his eyes.

What she said was true, she was indeed afraid and hated the "King of Snakes", but she did not want to become a mortal again, but prayed to continue her eternal life in this posture; this shows that, She didn't hate the snake king for turning her into this, but just hated the feeling that even if she became a supernatural creature, she would still be dominated by something stronger.

No matter how weak this female vampire who is good at acting shows, how can she escape his eyes?

He only promised to let her "live", but he didn't mention how he wanted her to live, right?

Xue Li shrugged, that's fine... That female vampire can't harm anyone in the tavern, and she can't escape if he is watching her.Even when he took occasional breaks, Amelia was completely in control of her.

Having decided on the matter here, Boss Xue looked serious again, and said to the vampire hunter, "Speaking of business...we have found out the identity of that goddess...her name is 'Shitabai'."

Chapter 15 The Boundary Between God and Man

"Shitabai?" D frowned.

Seeing that he couldn't understand, Xue Li slowly explained to him.

South American mythology, especially the mythology of the Mayan civilization in Mexico, is relatively primitive and simple.

The specific characteristics are, firstly, there are so many gods, and I wish every river had a river god; secondly, the personalities of the gods are not out of the scope of human nature, and will be controlled by jealousy, anger and greed like humans; thirdly, all gods They are all related to a certain natural phenomenon, and have not been sublimated to the image of an "omniscient and omnipotent creator"; in the end, the gods do not live in another world, but co-exist with human beings.

Of course, the gods in the Mayan culture have their own unique characteristics. For example, the corn god was higher than the sky god at the beginning, and the incarnation of the sun was actually a huge feathered snake with wings, etc.

In this unique mythology, there are not a few gods who like living sacrifices, such as Tezcatripoca, the god of chaos, also known as the famous "smoke mirror". Legend has it that he likes sacrifices of living people. ceremony.

In addition, there are many gods who can take the form of snakes and toads.

To make a digression here, in the eyes of Westerners who are used to Christian culture, it is a matter of course that this is an evil culture that deserves to be destroyed.The archbishop of the colonial army, Dinago de Landa, even ordered to burn all the Mayan literature found, and the Mayan civilization has been almost lost since then.

Fortunately, in the book that Xue Li found that specializes in the study of Mayan native religion, there are still some lesser-known gods recorded.

Among them is the snake girl Shitabai.

It is said that she was the most beautiful woman in the area during her lifetime, and her eyes were higher than the top all her life, and she looked down on the people around her. It is considered a symbol of debauchery, is willing to associate with men, and is always active in helping those poor, sick, injured animals, lost cubs, etc.

To her sisters, she has always sneered and maintained a sense of moral superiority.

She firmly believed that she was the nobler one, until the two died.

After the death, fragrant flowers bloomed beside the sister's body. The animals in the forest attached themselves to this kind woman and guarded her. funeral;

Her own corpse, on the other hand, stinks, and no one really likes her, and no one comes to see her off voluntarily—people who pursue her just like her appearance, and when the youth is gone, people abandon her.

Her soul refused to believe this ending, and her extreme arrogance turned into twisted jealousy and anger, and she was reborn as Shitabai; her appearance is still beautiful, with black hair hanging down to her ankles, and a moving appearance and figure , but inside is the deepest darkness.

This "goddess" usually appears behind the kapok tree, combing her beautiful and smooth long hair.

Every man who sees her in the dark will be tempted by her and taken to the swamp deep in the jungle... There, she will turn into a huge poisonous snake, swallow the man, or dig out his heart .

She is beautiful on the outside, but rotten on the inside.

The man she hunted has never returned, but the myth swears that this evil god has black spots on the back that only corpses have; her belly is so rotten that you can even see through the pale skin. The swirl of flesh and blood, the smell of rancidity; her eyes would fall to the collar if she was not paying attention, tearing out the nerves in the back, leaving only a black hole in the face...

I don't know how a goddess described in this way can seduce passing men. Maybe she, like Santa Nicole, has some tricks to maintain her human form.

"The sculpture... well, the whole pyramid is collapsed now, there is no actual example, but you should remember the pattern on it, right?"

Xue Li asked.

D nodded involuntarily. Those relief sculptures with snake body and human face naturally have a mysterious and strange temperament. Those who have seen it must have a deep memory of it, and it is not so easy to forget it.

So Boss Xue nodded and continued: "The blurred area in the middle of the statue doesn't mean that she is half-human and half-snake, but that she can switch between human and snake.

"Although her characteristics are not completely consistent with those of the 'vampires' you have seen, the corresponding relationship is quite clear."

Indeed... Even the part of seducing men with beauty is so appropriate.

D recalled that last night, before the Fowlers walked into the bar, there wasn't even a woman in the crowd outside.He didn't care at first, because the dwarf at the door of the bar said, "This place only serves locomotives and truck drivers"... Aren't the vast majority of these two types of people are men?

But now when it comes to the image of the goddess in the myth, he seems to understand a little bit... because the characteristics of the gods determine the essence of the existence of the gods, and the gods who give up their characteristics can be said to cease to exist.Under the circumstances of the rules, the group of guys who stole the power of the gods must also abide by this setting, and plunder life force and soul in the way recorded in the myth.

The only thing he couldn't figure out was, since the "Nine Kings" were not priests but thieves, why did the temple they built openly engrave "Shitabai" on the relief?Shouldn't it be just to cover up people's eyes and ears?

Now that the snake king is completely dead and the pyramid no longer exists, maybe this question is destined to be unanswered.

After taking a last look at the rising sun of this world, D, who already felt that he was about to suffer from sun sickness, still lowered his head, lowered his hat, and prepared to follow Xue Li back to the tavern.

Although these background stories may no longer have any effect and will no longer help him, but it is enough to explain everything in the end and let this matter have a beginning and end in his memory... After a long time, he began to feel numb. In his life, things like this always give him a rare sense of accomplishment.

Kate Fowler stands aside.

Fortunately, the caravan was not completely damaged in the impact last night, and it can still be driven away; Scott has helped his father Jacob to check the chassis, and he may leave here after a while, and spend the whole day and night Forget what happened as a dream.

Seeing Xue Li and D who were about to leave, the feeling of unreality in her heart quickly expanded again.

"Hello... Boss Xue? Can I still go to the tavern?"

Xue Li stopped, and looked back at her suspiciously.

"Why can't we? We're not some magical association or secret organization... Although the source of the customer base is not in line with common sense, the services we provide are indeed common in 'taverns', right?"

This is true. No matter what kind of creature you are or what world you come from, everyone usually eats, drinks and chats in the tavern very normally, but occasionally wants to help other people solve problems.

Jacob, who had finished checking the car, also sat in the driver's seat and started the car. Hearing the conversation between his daughter and Boss Xue, he turned around and interjected, "Boss Xue... the next time Kate goes, give her a ride." Just a soft drink."

"Dad! I already tasted one with a higher alcohol content last night..."

Kate immediately turned her head to refute something, but when she turned her head again, Xue Li and D had disappeared, and they seemed to have walked back through the door.

With a little emptiness in her heart, she walked to the back boringly, leaned on the sofa chair, and lifted the gauze curtain on the window.

The car has already started, driving forward along the wasteland with no roads, and the huge deep pit behind it has become farther and farther away.

The few people in the car lost their interest in talking for a moment, turned to the north road in silence, and drove towards the border along the roadside signage.

It's better to go home... This journey is exciting and memorable enough.

In the sunlight, under the human bones, stones and metal fragments in the pit, the blood that had been surging in the blood pool deep in the pyramid had dried up.

The officials in Mexico did not move quickly, and the pit was too deep. After a busy day, they did not make much progress. They did not even know if anyone was buried in the collapse; after night fell, they could only Searchlights were set up and excavation was carried out overnight.

Above the deep pit, a group of bats fluttered and flew past, circled a few times, and then turned back and flew away.

Hundreds of kilometers away from here, in another inaccessible place in the jungle, at the top of the dilapidated pyramid, a man also wearing a robe suddenly opened his eyes in the temple.

"One out of nine... The variable has come. Who killed him? Who cut off the connection between him and the earth?"

He was talking to himself, slowly pushed open the door and walked out of the temple, and walked down his own pyramid step by step, as if he wanted to go somewhere to confirm something.

But right in front of him, among the weeds in the jungle, a female figure that he never wanted to see at this moment suddenly appeared majestically.

She hummed a song and used a cactus as a comb to smooth her jet-black hair, and she sat beside the primitive dirt road that stretched to civilized society under the pyramid.

Behind her, a kapok tree grew at some point.

"...What? Impossible!"

The man who walked out of the pyramid roared in horror, and then shouted several times from left to right: "Come here, people of Chaos...help your king fight!"

After shouting for a long time, no one agreed. He could only watch the woman stand up and walk slowly towards him.

Before she could finish walking this distance, the man had already collapsed limply on the stone steps.

He realized that his disciples and the immortal warriors who took the name of Chaos were dead... and there was only one person in this world who could kill them so silently.

"Shitabai..." With a trembling voice, he uttered the once taboo name.

The woman had already come close, and her beautiful appearance suddenly began to rot and disintegrate. Carrion and rotting facial features flowed down from her face like burning wax.

"Thief……"

She spoke in classical Yucatan, two fangs popped out from under her lips, and bit down on the face of the man full of fear and despair.

Chapter No.16 Dead Blood

Somewhere in the darkest corner of the tavern, Santa Nicole crouched under the stairs with her arms folded in fear.

As a supernatural creature, there is an atmosphere of terror here, as if some existence above all things is opening its eyes and staring at her, as long as she makes the slightest movement, she will be caught by that giant The power of his body is crushed into slag... No, even slag will not be left, and even smoke will not rise, it can only become a part of the endless darkness in the void.

She felt that she was more afraid of this feeling than she was afraid of the sun at noon - that is, Kukulkan, the feathered snake god.

What the hell... There is nothing in this tavern, everything is normal, but she just doesn't feel right!

The other guests were looking at her with strange eyes, as if they had no similar fear experience to her; even ordinary human beings were the same, after looking at her out of curiosity, they sat at the table with a calm expression Talking and laughing, I don't know how dangerous this place is.

Only on the other side of the bar, the strange woman with steel prosthetic limbs on her arms was watching her, and when she met her eyes, there was a malicious smile from the corner of her mouth.

D was also sitting quietly beside him, listening to Boss Xue introducing the rules he had just discovered.

"... That's right, first of all, she is not qualified as a guest, and secondly, you and I think that there is 'clear malice' and 'clear threat' against us, so the tavern is excluding her. In addition, she is indeed malicious ...Just like if you want to draw a knife here and hurt people, you will be stopped, she may also be defined as 'harmful' itself."

He said.

D on the opposite side frowned slightly, although it was his idea to bring this "vampire" or "snake demon" here... But it is not easy to be surrounded by this kind of emotion forever, I am afraid that it is worse than decayed immortality itself, than any Forms of imprisonment are more brutal.

While the female vampire did commit a crime and did try to take advantage of him, the punishment was a little too much.

Xue Li glanced over there again, filled another glass of wine for D and then shrugged: "But once she gives up her hostility towards this tavern and the guests, she probably won't feel this way anymore. …In other words, when is she no longer an enemy and when will she be treated like a guest. Tell me, when are you going to take the name off the whiteboard? You should decide just to see other worlds Are you hired?"

"It's good to stay on it... I'm destined not to stay in one place for too long, it's just right if I have the opportunity to visit other worlds. Please help me keep an eye out for other employment."

With that said, D drank the wine in his glass, stood up and shook his cloak, stepped on the floor and walked towards the door.

Xue Li shook his head noncommittally, put away the cup and went to wash it.

As the night deepens, guests from all over the world come here one after another. Of course, as soon as they enter the door, they will notice the revealingly dressed woman squatting in the corner and under the stairs, and when they come here, they will show strange expressions to Xue Li. look.

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Boss Xue had to explain over and over again, no, no, no, listen to me, that is a vampire from another world, locked here by a certain hunter.And no one bullied her, and no one abused her. After all, even if you have any ideas in this tavern, you can't do it at all...

D, who had left a mess in the tavern, didn't realize it at all. He returned to his own world, riding a two-horned horse, and walking on the road overgrown with wild grass.

In order to complete Kate's task, he delayed his trip for about a day, and now he can only travel day and night without leaving any rest time.

There are not many "nobles" on this land, but the number of human beings is also very small.Towns and villages are far away from each other, and because of the existence of nobles and barbarians, humans themselves have to live in groups and rely on collective confrontation, and there are very few settlements with a scale of less than a thousand people.

Riding a horse from one place to another like D, it would take a few days at the fastest... until you see the square and flat fields, the artificially built straight water canals, and the chimneys on the roof. Gray smoke and so on... traces of civilization.

In order to prevent some monsters from sneaking in at night, even the chimneys of human houses are made thin and long. In addition, crosses must be erected high on the roof, densely arranged like trees in a forest. It becomes a large area, so that people can see from a distance that there are human beings living there.

Although D himself is a mixed race, he will not be popular at all, but since he hates those nobles even more...so he still has to go to the human side to accept the task.

In the cool night wind, the two-horse horned horse galloped vigorously, the horseshoes rolled up the dust on the road, and the cloak fluttered silently behind him.

After running like this for a while, D's ears suddenly moved, he immediately slowed down, reined in the horse, and when the horse's front hooves were raised high and whining, he turned his head and looked to the other side .

The monster with an old man's face on his left hand also said at this time: "Ah, it smells like dead blood... It's not the kind of blood that comes out when you die from an injury, it's real dead blood. Are the people there?"

D didn't answer, but turned his horse's head, stepped into the wild grass on the side of the road, and headed towards the direction of the bloody smell.

The smell of dead people's blood is his unique way of contacting... because for purebred nobles, these bloods that have lost all their vitality are highly poisonous, and they may not even be able to touch them, let alone inhale them.